Hi,
I've building rpm's of the MATE desktop for fedora 16 and provide them in own unofficially repo.
MATE is a fork of gnome2.
After 4 weeks of testing after publication in the german fedora forum i'll provide the MATE Destop for fc16 in the english spoken world.
Most of packages are stable.
Installation is very easy and works without complications with gnome 3.
Code:
yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/mate-desktop-fedora-updates/16/noarch/mate-desktop-release-16-8.fc16.noarch.rpm
yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop
After that you've a minimal save Mate deskop and 4 new repos.
- mate-desktop-fedora
- mate-desktop-fedora-updates
- mate-desktop-fedora-updates-testing
- mate-desktop-fedora-new-applications-testing
The last last repo isn't enabeled as default. You have to enable it in the yum configuration.
I've used fedora spec files as based for my rpm's. So i think they are fedora compatible.
If you find problems or bugs pls post them in the MATE forum if it's more mate specific otherwise here.
I said that MATE for fedora is in a testing phase, feel free to send your feedback good or bad, for helping the develop of rpms for fedora.
Last but not least.
If you like the MATE destop in fedora and my work and want to help pls contact me.
I'm searching for people who can help me developing and and maintaining the rpm's for fedora.
Enjoy the MATE feeling
Edit:
Packages for 32 bit OS are now available
Mate packages for fc17 are now available.
Install instructions:
Code:
yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/fedora_17/mate-desktop-fedora-updates/noarch/mate-desktop-release-17-4.fc17.noarch.rpm
yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop
Extra packages:
- caja-dropbox
- caja-actions
- tortoisehg-caja
- caja-terminal (embedded terminal)
- mdm (gdm fork)
- mintmenu
- bastile (seahorse fork)
- idol (fork of totem-2.32)
- rejilla (fork of basero-2.32)
- mate-nettool
- mate-color-manager
- tortoise-hg-caja
- mate-mplayer
- mate-gmail-notifier
In mate-desktop-fedora-updates repo you'll find a compiz mate fork from stable compiz-0.88 packages, which are adjusted for mate.
For example:
gconf to mateconf
metacity to marco for gtk-window-decorator
Simple do:
Code:
yum install compiz compiz-mate compizconfig-backend-mateconf compiz-plugins-main compiz-plugins-main-mate compiz-plugins-extra compiz-plugins-extra-mate compiz-plugins-unsupported compiz-plugins-unsupported-mate compiz-manager ccsm fusion-icon emerald emerald-themes
Note:
compiz-0.8.8 will obsolete compiz-0.9.x from fedora 16 without yum conflicts.
To avoid theme inconsistencies between gtk2 and gtk3 applications use 'mate-themes-extras' wich include themes for GTK2/3.
f16 --- mate-themes-extras
f17 --- mate-themes-extras2
New since 20.06.2012 --Denx-OS
There is a respin of fc17 which comes with Mate-Desktop as the default desktop.
see this topic for instructions.
have fun
New since 24.09.2012
I've update compiz for mate, improvements and changes are...
-- fix compiz and gtk window decoration button placement (bug), see
http://forums.mate-desktop.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=818
-- move compiz packages from 'mate-desktop-fedora-new-application-testing' to 'mate-desktop-fedora' repo.
-- add compiz-mate-gtk binary
This means you can start compiz during desktop start with a mate-conf key.
All you need is to set this mate-conf settings.
Code:
mateconftool-2 --set /desktop/mate/session/required_components/windowmanager --type string compiz-mate-gtk
Or use mate-conf-editor for setting the key.
The Mate-desktop starts directly with compiz yet.
Don't forget to disable fusion-icon in auto start if you use this for starting compiz!
You can use 'fusion-icon -n' for disable start compiz with fusion-icon.
UPDATE 19.12.2012
New release file for f17
remove obsolete information about compiz installation
UPDATE 06.01.2013
fix install instructions
UPDATE 16.01.2013
F18 release
In the last 2 month i was thinking a lot in which form i do the release for f18.
I decided not to do a full release against official fedora Mate-Desktop for f18, because in the end it is double work.
And i prefer to have more beach, sun, girls and beer the next year
I know the f18 mate release is far away frrom perfect, a little buggy and not complete.
Also they used Mate-1.5.x, which is an development release.
My second thougt to release an stable 1.4.0 release which you know from f16/f17 makes also no sense, because if Mate release 1.6 in maybe march, i have to update too.
And in the end it's double work again.
The best solution in my eyes is to provide an extra repo which include additional MATE packages.
a) additional package from the community
b) official packages from Mate which aren't build in fedora yet.
Package list:
- mintmenu
- bastile (seahorse fork)
- caja-actions
- caja-dropbox
- caja-sound-converter
- caja-terminal
- faience-icon-theme
- gnome-colors-icon-theme
- libmate-media-profiles
- mate-applets
- mate-character-map
- mate-color-manager
- mate-disk-utility (palimpset fork)
- mate-gmail-notifier
- mate-icon-theme-faenza
- mate-nettool
- mate-themes-extras-3 (gtk-2/3 theme collection package optimised for gtk3-3.6)
- python-caja
- python-corba
- python-mate
- tortoisehg-caja
- mate-mplayer
Installattion:
Code:
yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/105479527/Mate-Desktop/fedora-release-extra-18/mate-desktop-fedora/noarch/mate-desktop-extra-release-18-1.fc18.noarch.rpm
You can install the packages via yum yet. I also add a group install information which installs all packages except mate-mplayer (rpmfusion needed)
Code:
yum groupinstall mate-desktop-extra
The extra repo based on mate-1.5 packages and is full compatible to fedora's mate-desktop.
I've bring back compiz-0.88 in fedora f18 repos and they are hopefully available the next week in updates-testing.
I hope this is also a compromise for you and you will use the repo.
Have fun
Update 22.05.2013
The linuxmint guys did some great work with mintmenu the last weeks, it works well now with MATE-1.5.x/1.6.x
So i decided to povide this Advanced MATE Menu in the f18 repo, feel free to test it.